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- 2010
- TV-MA
- ABC
- 2010
- TV-MA
- ABC
Summary ABC expands on its Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise with Bachelor Pad, which brings prior contestants together to compete for a $250,000 prize.
- 2010
- TV-MA
- ABC
- 2010
- TV-MA
- ABC
Bachelor Pad
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 9, 2010
50
6.0
Summary ABC expands on its Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise with Bachelor Pad, which brings prior contestants together to compete for a $250,000 prize.
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
50
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
What I like about this show as opposed to the other earlier versions is that it's not simply one male or female picking from a lineup of the desperate like a slave auction. Here, the 19 insanely good-looking, mentally unstable, scantily clad, all-white (by the way) losers compete against one another.
These reality vets are pros. No awkward small talk necessary--they know what's expected of them, and they jump right in. Things are complicated by boyfriends back home, but not all that much.
All in all, it's commendable ABC is so committed to recycling. Green is good, even if in this case, it's mostly the color of money.
Bachelor Pad ups the ante this season with a cheesy gimmick that turns out to be ingenious. [6 Aug 2012, p.37]
19 male and female losers of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" are brought together, "Big Brother" style, to do what they do best: plot and flirt and cry, manufacture drama, do a little armchair psychoanalysis and hook up. In other words, high school without, you know, the learning part.
Bachelor Pad comes from a franchise that walks a fine line between sympathizing with and flat-out mocking its contestants. Clearly, the producers here favor the latter, and who could blame them? So much priceless material!
There is "love, hookups, backstabbing, cheating, scandals and crying," though not nearly enough to distract from the show's tedious obeisance to a formula that has become more familiar than the lyrics to "Happy Birthday."
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.0
44% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
22% Negative
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2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.0
44% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
22% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Next Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Aug 9, 2010
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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